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Conference furniture can accommodate audiences for festive events

Christmas is a great time to schedule some extra festive events - and the right conference furniture can keep your audiences comfortable both in the remainder of December, and well into 2015 as well.

This year has, of course, been dominated by the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, and there are still several events scheduled to honour this anniversary before the year is out.

For example, at Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester, a talk by local historian Dr John Sutton on Sunday, December 14th, will look back at the 1914 Christmas truce.

Remembered also in this year's Sainsbury's Christmas ad, the truce was unplanned and unofficial, but has echoed over the years as one of the most uplifting moments in a terrible time.

On Christmas Eve 1914, on some parts of the Western Front, soldiers on both sides simply stopped fighting and, instead, sang carols across No Man's Land, met and exchanged gifts, and famously played football.

Dr Sutton's talk will focus on the Royal Leicestershire Regiment and, while it is free to attend, places are limited so anyone interested in attending has been asked to book a seat in advance.

This will of course not be the last WWI-related event between now and 2018, when the centenary of the war's end will be celebrated.

With the correct choice of conference furniture, you can make sure you are ready to host similar talks and presentations of your own, whether to mark Christmas, to remember the war, or for any other reason.

Stackable chairs make it easy to create a temporary audience area in a room not normally used for such occasions, and to tidy those seats away again into relatively little storage space.

You can also get interlocking chairs for audiences, so that although each is individual, they connect together to form clearly defined rows of seating.

If you are planning an event, make your audience seating your priority, so that you know what your maximum capacity will be.

That way, like in the example of Dr Sutton's talk above, you can issue tickets - even if they are free - and make sure you do not face an overcrowding problem on the day.